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Unit I: Thinking About History

Blink and Thin Slicing

“'Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking' by Malcolm Gladwell: Experiences, environment influence first impressions, snap decisions”
Sunday, January 23, 2005, By Bob Hoover, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05023/446202-148.stm

“'Blink': Hunch Power” by David Brooks, January 16, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/16/books/review/16COVERBR.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=blink%20gladwell&st=cse

What Historians Do

Sean Wilentz, "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Thomas Jefferson" -

Freedom and Liberty

Thinking - Thin and Thick-Slicing

The American Dream

Wikipedia entry - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream

"The American Wanderer, in All His Stripes" - by Michael Powell, August 23, 2008 -


Religion and the American Dream

Faith and America - Assignment

Faith and the Founding-handout.doc

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Stephen Prothero - Religious Literacy Quiz

Go tohttp://www.stephenprothero.com/

Scroll down three-quarters of the way and click on “Test Your Religious IQ”

The quiz is also at: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,660205799,00.html

Robert Bellah - Civil Religion




"City on a Hill", by Patrick Allitt - Review of Garry Wills book, Head and Heart, December 9, 2007, NY Times,

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/books/review/Allitt-t.html?scp=1&sq=garry%20wills%20city%20on%20a%20hill&st=cse

Religion in Contemporary America

Religion in Contemporary America.doc

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